Webster's Dictionary 1828

2944

BULBACEOUS

BULBA'CEOUS, adjective Bulbous. [I believe, not used.]

2945

BULBED

BULB'ED, adjective Round headed.

2946

BULBIFEROUS

BULBIF'EROUS, adjective Producing bulbs; as bulbiferous stems.

2947

BULBOUS

BULB'OUS, adjective Containing bulbs or a bulb; growing from bulbs; round or roundish.1. Containing a knob, or protuberant part; swelling out; presenting rounded elevations.

2948

BULCHIN

BULCHIN, noun A young male calf.

2949

BULGE

BULGE, noun A different orthography of bilge. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask; protuberance.BULGE, verb intransitive To swell out; to be protuberant.1. To bilge as a shi...

2950

BULGING

BULG'ING, participle present tense or adjective Swelling out; bilging. As an adjective, protuberant.

2951

BULIMY

BU'LIMY, noun [Gr. great, and hunger.] A voracious appetite; a disease in which the patient has a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food, and often faints, if not indulged. ...

2952

BULK

BULK, noun1. Magnitude of material substance; whole dimensions; size of a thing; as an ox or a ship of great bulk2. The gross; the majority; the main mass or body; as the bulk o...

2953

BULK-HEAD

BULK'-HEAD, noun [bulk and head.] A partition in a ship made with boards, to form separate apartments.

2954

BULKINESS

BULK'INESS, noun Greatness in bulk, size or stature.

2955

BULKY

BULK'Y, adjective Large; of great dimensions; of great size.

2956

BULL

BULL, noun1. The male of the Bos, or bovine genus of quadrupeds, of which cow is the female.2. In a scriptural sense, an enemy, powerful, fierce and violent.Many bulls have comp...

2957

BULL-FIGHT

BULL'-FIGHT, noun [bull and fight.] A combat with a bull; an amusement among the Spaniards and Portuguese. A horseman, called a toreador or picador attacks a bull in a circus or...

2958

BULL-HEAD

BULL'-HEAD, noun [bull and head.] A genus of fishes, the Cottus, with a head broader than the body, whence the name. This fish is called by some the Miller's thumb.1. A stupid f...

2959

BULLACE

BULL'ACE, noun The bully-tree, or Chrysophyllum, a plant of two species, natives of the West Indies.1. The wild plum, a species of Prunus.

2960

BULLANTIC

BULLAN'TIC, adjective [from bull.] Designating certain ornamental capital letters, used in Apostolic bulls. It is used also as a noun.

2961

BULLARY

BULL'ARY, noun A collection of Papistical bulls.

2962

BULLATE

BUL'LATE, adjective [Latin bullatus.] Having elevations, like blisters; as a bullate leaf.

2963

BULLET

BULL'ET, noun A ball of iron or lead, called also shot, used to load guns for killing man or beast. Balls for cannon are made of iron; musket-balls are made of lead.

2964

BULLETIN

BULL'ETIN, noun A French word denoting1. An official report from an officer to his commander or superior.2. An official report of a physician respecting the king's health.3. A l...

2965

BULLION

BULL'ION, noun Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. The precious metals are called bullion when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots, or in an...

2966

BULLISH

BULL'ISH, adjective Partaking of the nature of a bull or blunder.

2967

BULLIST

BULL'IST, noun A writer of papal bulls.

2968

BULLITE

BUL'LITE, noun A petrified shell, or the fossil remains of shells, of the genus Bulla.

2969

BULLITION

BULLI'TION, noun [Latin bullio, to boil. See Boil.] The act or state of boiling. Superseded by ebullition.

2970

BULLOCK

BULL'OCK, noun An ox, or castrated bull. In America, it is applied to a full grown ox.